Bluestar PLM for High-tech & Electronics
Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD, PLM and ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Start simple by CAD/PDM + ERP Connectors, explore a single business system by having CAD + PLM + ERP with Bluestar PLM, or move your business towards enterprise product configuration by choosing the Product Configuration Module.
Integrate your ECAD data with Bluestar PLM inside Dynamics 365/AX
Todays High-tech & Electronics companies face a reality of increasing product complexity driven by constantly rapid driven technological advances.
As a manufacturer of electronic products, you need a component management system that provides real-time updates on multiple component sources, so you will acquire only the most cost-beneficial and high-quality parts for your products.
For Electronics companies, Bluestar PLM support a single source of product truth platform that manages component data libraries to ensure data consistency. Bluestar PLM manages new part requests and revisions, part lifecycles and integrate with multiple design tools for improving multi-disciplinary product development and seamlessly sharing ECAD libraries on a global, enterprise-wide level.
It is a solution for your business that helps electronics companies mitigate the risk of experiencing product failures and errors that have a huge impact on product cost, quality, and time-to-market.
Challenges of non-embedded PLM and ERP systems
- Manual data synchronization between the ERP, PLM and CAD systems can cause data misalignments.
- Reusing data is challenging due to time-consuming manual data transfers.
- Missing visibility in end-to-end business processes leads to non-value-added work time.
- Order fulfillments are delayed by bottlenecks causing operational performance to suffer.
- Sharing engineering data between different sites can be troublesome without a common data management system.
- Engineering change orders are executed without understanding the impact on the supply chain.
Modules for your Engineering
How Bluestar PLM benefits High-tech & Electronics Companies
Better quality products
Allows you to standardize your business processes to easily repeat them over and over. This makes it much easier to optimize your predefined product configurations, for optimal end product.
Fewer mistakes
Repetition of processes also means more routine in execution. Potential errors are prevented, and production goes faster.
Shorter time to market
With Bluestar PLM fully embedded in D365/AX, departments and sites can extend their work and collaborate in a single digital environment, so sales, engineering, procurement, and manufacturing processes can run parallel to each other, eliminating wait times.
Seamlessly share parts libraries on an enterprise level
Part information and lifecycle status, as well as lead time information, is acquired prior to releasing the BOM for approval. This vastly improves time-to-market and mitigates the number of errors related to component stock issues or obsolescence.
Uphold your product compliance obligations
Identify non-compliant products before costly mistakes are made at the release of the product into manufacturing. Avoid products being taken off-market, paying huge fines, and suffering severe credibility loss of your brand.
Integrate global business processes
End-to-end issues are tracked and coordinated, and change impact analysis lets you understand the impact of design decisions, for a far more optimal and cost-beneficial design process.
Trace work-in-progress and reduce errors
Track the latest product changes – in real-time – and who made them with audit trails for complete visibility and traceability. In this way, all changes that come in are immediately addressed, to reduce errors and improve efficiency.
Faster product development
Product data (CAD, PLM, and ERP) centralized in a single application promotes greater reuse and saves you time, otherwise wasted on searching for information when all product related data is collected in a single BOM – in a single system.
Improve collaboration between design teams
Integrate multiple formats of MCAD and ECAD design data into one place. Design intent and incremental engineering changes on PCBs and mechanical enclosures are shared immediately between design teams, lowering the risk of discovering constraints and errors late in development. Grants you a faster and more efficient development process.
Errors resulting from our bill of materials have reduced from 60% to below 10%, production line efficiency has increased by 15%. Overall, now that we have access to great detailed information, we have identified many opportunities for improvement. This is guiding some of our key initiatives for the year ahead. We couldn’t have done any of this without Bluestar PLM.
Joe Stich, Supply Chain Director, Rayloc
We chose Bluestar because it is an engineering solution. It could also integrate with computer-aided design (CAD), something that is extremely important for us as a manufacturer. Ultimately, it just blew the socks off the competitors as an engineering-focused solution to manage our parts, products and lifecycle management.
Stefan Naude, Engineering director, Bel Power Solutions
One of the primary reasons for choosing Bluestar PLM was that it is fully embedded in Dynamics AX and that it allows our engineering and manufacturing teams to automatically exchange designs and 3D models using various CAD systems
Jeannie Suelke, Vice president of IT and accounting, Amplifier Research (AR)
Our customers gain competitive advantages
We have implemented Bluestar PLM for more than hundreds of enterprises and world-wide 10,000 users. Following implementations, we have evaluated on our customers’ user experiences and benefits achieved from having our system onboard. These evaluations have given us great examples of the results gained from Bluestar PLM inside Dynamics 365/AX.
Whitepaper
“10 Reasons Why You Need ERP-based PLM”
Learn why PLM – Product Lifecycle Management, is essential for your manufacturing company to enter Industry 4.0. By having a single solution where the PLM system is embedded in ERP, you can fully leverage product data to satisfy customer demands and deliver orders on time and within budget.
Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
pbp@bluestarplm.com